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2023 Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Nebraska

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$16,000 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$22,825 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Drama & Theater Arts School for You

With 104 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, drama and theater arts is the #68 most popular major in Nebraska.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Nebraska to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Nebraska to see which programs offered the best value experiences for theater students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Nebraska

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Colleges.

Best Nebraska Schools for Affordable Quality in Drama & Theater Arts

$7,940 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Nebraska at Kearney to be the best value school for drama and theater arts students who want to pursue a degree in Nebraska. Located in the distant town of Kearney, UNK is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UNK are $7,940 per year.

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$8,136 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Nebraska at Omaha. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Nebraska list. UNOMAHA is a large public school located in the city of Omaha.

UNOMAHA undergraduate students pay an average of $8,136 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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$9,590 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Nebraska list. Located in the large city of Lincoln, UNL is a public school with a fairly large student population.

UNL undergraduate students pay an average of $9,590 in in-state tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that theater majors at UNL take out is $22,357.

UNL also took the #2 spot in our Best Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Nebraska rankings.

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$38,334 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nebraska Wesleyan University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Nebraska list. NWU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Lincoln.

NWU undergraduate students pay an average of $38,334 in in-state tuition and fees each year. On average, theater graduates from NWU take out $27,000 in student loans while working on their degree.

NWU also made our Best Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Nebraska list, coming in at #4.

Read full report on Drama & Theater Arts at Nebraska Wesleyan University

Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 294
Minnesota 231
Kansas 95
Iowa 160
North Dakota 9
South Dakota 32

One of 10 majors within the area of study, drama and theater arts has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts 37,413
Design & Applied Arts 36,301
Music 25,910
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 16,778
General Visual & Performing Arts 6,355

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Donald Judge.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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